Momentous Day!

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Posted Friday, July 23, 2010

Dave's spent the last two weeks almost literally building a house inside this POD. It's amazing how much he packed in there—as though he built us a house we could live in right there, and the way he did it was sort of organic and magic. I think the POD guy was startled by the heft of the thing when he was maneuvering it with his hydraulic lift this morning. It left about 10 AM with almost everything we own in it (except the new house of course). The POD will stay in a warehouse in Salinas until Monday the 26th, then take a 6-day, I think it is, trip to Seattle where it will be stored until we call them to deliver it to our new home. We should have everything in our garage by August 6th. Watching the thing being lifted and heaved to and fro was a bit scary. Here's a video of it all; quite amazing...........

The other major event of the day was the singing of "final" documents on the house. I won't bore you with the hoops we went through to get to this point, but through them we went, and, I think they're finished. One more step—I believe it has something to do with the title—has to happen, then we get the keys on the 29th, but for all intents and purposes, we are now home owners. I will DEFINITELY update the blog on key acceptance day! Here are a few photos of us signing final papers on boxes in the empty cottage.

Dave contemplating everything............

Me just signing what I"m told to!

I fly to Seattle and on to Langley via public transit on Monday the 26th, where I'll have three glorious relaxing days to myself. Poor Dave leaves with the car and "Grace the boat" the same day, and will pick up friend Bill (in former photos) whose property the boat's on now, and they'll drive all the way up so that Dave will have some company and driving relief (Thanks, Bill!).

We've had an amazing amount of stuff to sell/recycle/get rid of in some way. Here are a few photos of some of it.

Inside Dave's tent.

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Junk ..........

and more junk

Two young men bought both the huge tents (I posted them on Craig's list) in which Dave was boat-building, and then decided they wanted nearly everything else we had to rid ourselves of, so, in exchange for MUCH of our stuff, they'll be cleaning the yard and hauling things here and there for us tomorrow, Sat. the 24th. In my opinion they've been (strong, young) angels from heaven who have helped us out of some work I'm not sure how we'd have finished.

The guys' truck with all our junk in it.......they're coming back for more tomorrow!

Final clip here is of our neighbor cat Izuzu who we've been friends with for over a year now. He's had a snack at our house almost every day over that period of time. Here he's just plain confused because nothing seems familiar EXCEPT his little bowl where his snack is.

So, we're off to bed, sleeping on an old camping blow-up mattress for the next 3 nights. I hope the next entry will be from our new home the address of which is:

Diane Driver & Dave Albright

1080 Village Loop

Langley, WA, 98260